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What Python libraries do folks use for querying Amazon product data? (Amazon Associates Web Service - used to be called E-Commerce API, or something along those lines).

Based on my research, PyAWS seems okay, but still pretty raw (and hasn't been updated in a while). Wondering if there's an obvious canonical library that I'm just missing.

Will Curran
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Kevin
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  • Folks, whats the standard these days? Boto? – Cmag Sep 19 '12 at 06:17
  • @Clustermagnet boto doesn't appear to have any ability to query product data. It's more for dealing with their IT services like EC2 and S3. – Endophage Sep 27 '12 at 21:07
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) is different from Amazon Associates Web Service. boto is the official SDK for AWS (and offers no support for Amazon Associates Web Service). – Will Curran Nov 06 '12 at 22:52

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There is now another alternative: python-amazon-product-api. It supports API version 2009-11-01 2010-12-01.

Sebastian
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I'm using Bottlenose, Dan Loewenherz's "super awesome Python wrapper for the Amazon Product Advertising API". It doesn't parse the XML, so I'm using lxml.objectify:

ACCESS_KEY_ID = "..."
SECRET_KEY = "..."
ASSOC_TAG = "..."

import bottlenose
amazon = bottlenose.Amazon(ACCESS_KEY_ID, SECRET_KEY, ASSOC_TAG)
response=amazon.ItemLookup(ItemId="B0018AFK38", ResponseGroup="OfferSummary")

from lxml import objectify
root = objectify.fromstring(response)
root.Items.Item.OfferSummary.LowestNewPrice.FormattedPrice
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    I'm using this too, and so far with great results. I think my favorite thing so far is his addition of the Style parameter in his howto - you can specify an xml2json xslt file as he demonstrates here: https://github.com/dlo/bottlenose – pho79 Dec 02 '11 at 05:03
  • Just as a side note: the xml2json feature has been removed on Amazon's end and bottlenoe raises an error on using the "Style" param now. Wonderful library, yet!! – Simon Steinberger May 29 '13 at 14:42
  • Can it be used with Associate API? – Volatil3 Jul 04 '14 at 19:42
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If what you are looking for is a simple, object oriented access to Amazon products (lookup and search), try python-amazon-simple-product-api. Its a new project i've just released:

http://github.com/yoavaviram/python-amazon-simple-product-api

Its the new kid on the block!

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  • This looks good. Is there any likelihood that the wrapper will generate affiliate links in the future? – user714852 Jun 05 '12 at 20:55
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    It already does. You initialize the API with your associates ID and the link for each product will contain the 'tag' element. – yoav.aviram Jul 10 '12 at 11:01
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PyAWS is no longer hosted on SourceForge. The latest version (0.3.0) is available via the authors website.

Make sure you also grab the patch for Amazons latest API changes, mentioned in the comments.

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How about boto? Anyone have any experience with it? I just started looking for a Python package for Amazon and boto looks up to date (v1.8c release 28-Jun-2009), active and complete (has a long list of supported interfaces).

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pyaws seems to be the best one out there. I used it here (my source code) It worked fine for me.

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pyaws is the best in my opinion. The most available version is 0.2.0, but there is also a version 0.3.0 that is somewhat harder to find. The best maintained version of it that I have found though, which is based on 0.3.0, is on bitbucket.

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The only other library I'm aware of is pyAmazon, which is the predecessor of pyaws. If you're familiar with the Amazon API (or are willing to become so), you could probably put together something yourself with ZSI.

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